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Sun, 05 Aug 2018 16:51:40 GMTMy friend Bloodbeard has shared a tutorial (http://bloodbeard.blogspot.com/2018/08/tutorial-hydro-bar.html) for making a ramshackle post-apocalyptic drinking hole. Lots of similar stuff to be found on his blog:
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My friend Bloodbeard has shared a tutorial for making a ramshackle post-apocalyptic drinking hole. Lots of similar stuff to be found on his blog:

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Tutorial: Hydro Bar
I got the idea for this build after getting a couple of resin signs from Ramshackle Games. Boxed around my mind for a few days and then I drew up the build. Haven't tried doing that before - but I didn't want to mess it up. Here's the concept sketch.

Step 1: Base and scafolding
Cut out a base for the build. I''ve used 3mm thick cardboard and made it fit my concept scetch. As I play Deadzone, it's as always fitted with the 3" system.

Cut up a bunch of old sprue in 3" pieces. Use the hot glue gun to fix it to the base. When dry, mark out windows, a bar and doors with other sprue pieces.

Step 2: Siding
Take your trusted toothpaste squeezer (5$ off eBay incl shipping) and make a load of corrugated metal. Use cardboard, aluminium foil, plastic card or whatever you like. (Tower build with only metal. Walls build with a mix).

Starting from the bottom and using super glue, attach plates to the walls. The more scaffolding you did, they easier this is. Mix between horizontal and vertical lines, for easy detailing.

Step 3: Water tank
The water tank is made from a tractor toy, bought for nothing in a thrift store. The piping is from russian Tehnolog. Very cheap kits (and cheap plastic) - got my bits in a trade. Otherwise use plastic tubing (like the pole from small birthday flags).

Step 4: Bar
The insde bar is made from some Ramshackle Games oil drums (these were 10pcs for 1£ including shipping during Black Friday), tractor wheels (that toy from before) and ice cream sticks. The bar desk on the wall is from a small pieces of textured plastic (from a box of chocolates).

Step 5: Window shutters
This is a wasteland bar - sand storms, ash storms, raiders. I wanted detail to make it look secure-ish. Cut some ice cream sticks into the right size and connect them with a piece of card (this will be hidden). On the front connect them with some texture plastic (the chocolate tray from before) to make metal bars.

Attach the windows with some chain. Jump down to the thrift store and buy some old necklaces, it's a lot cheaper than real 'hobby chain'. The chain is glued to the shutters with super glue. Then glue it inside the bar (cut a little groove in the wall top, not photoed). Super glue the chain as well making it hard.

This will prevent the shutters from breaking off easy (if you've put them in an angle like me).

The following project is based on a "Marine Expeditionary Force" but only in the size of a Rifle Company, anything ells would be a little to big.

The idea for the project started back in 2013 as I had the opportunity to buy a Dreamforge leviathian for just 42 Pounds. I was impressed from the modell that I went out and bought a whole army, the offered prices were just too good. I was lucky again a year later that the vendor was having a clearing out sale on all Dreamforge items and I immediately bought up all I could get and wanted.

In this project I am using a lot of different producers as I am not fond of the standard weapons that come along with the Dreamforge infantry.
Apart from that I have used a diversity of modern 1/48 scale models as tanks and other vehicles which I find suit the part quite well. To be able to make all the different weapon systems I wanted I used a lot of third party bits.

Each of the individual headers "buttons" will take you to the relevant page of that topic, I will add more and more as time goes by and I have finished painting the models.

I would call this kind of project a "Near Future" type, imagine the future in about 50- 100 years . Weapon systems have changed over time but not in a too extreme Sci-Fi fashion. Artillery is more important then ever as the use of laser weapons on the battlefield has become more common, due to this Missiles and rockets have lost some of their usefulness.
Humanity has started to conquer our galaxy but only for the use of its resources.

"Near Future"

The world we live in has changed, the 3rd world war did not come and go as we expected it too. The war went on for many decades but only behind the scenes instead of a years long open warfare.
The great nations of the world fought each other through third world countries, so called proxy wars.
Initiated uprisings and rebellions, conspiracies and deceptions were on a daily basis.
Pin point accurate stock market crashes took away nearly all the people had left, this drove the majority of the people into the dependency of the state and thus giving up their sovereignty.
A number of unbelievable cover-ups and deceptions were uncovered in USA of that time. This brought the USA into 2nd civil war which went on for years.
This left the former super powers country and population destroyed to the ground.
After the population, in the name of protection and justice gave up their personal freedoms and after they were robbed of their sphere of privacy humanity started to revolt and turn against their governments.

But as Planed their was already a savior.???

Ordo Draconis

The "Ordo Draconis", the first galactic expeditionary corps, 1st ironcore regiment, 7th battalion, company alpha will be the main focus point of my army.
A large part of our Earth is caught up in a "nuclear winter" I will try to show this on the bases the models are on. I have chosen the topic of a city battle as it fits perfect to the grey colour scheme I have chosen and I had the chance to use some of the really fantastic TT-C building.
First I wanted to use a different colour scheme then what was on the boxes but after seeing the amazingly painted miniatures from David Woods "Dwartist" my mind was set up and it was done for me!

As you can see the colour scheme will be a more natural realistic nature and not a fantastical colour pot.

I have chosen this Rifle company to resemble the US marine Corps rifle company because there is so much information out their about weapons, vehicles, unit sizes and so on.
Of course there will be deviations as I have added some modern weapon units and units.
I have a fable for gatling guns so you will see your fare share of them .
All in al the build up will be as follows:

Rifle Company Alpha

Company Headquarters 6 Men

Company Commander (Commanding Officer/CO) - Captain

Executive Officer (XO) - usually a First Lieutenant

First Sergeant

Gunnery Sergeant

Property NCO

Messenger/Driver

Rifle Platoon (3) Additionally each Rifle Platoon will get one LAW (Light Armoured Walker) 129 Men

Platoon Headquarters

Platoon Commander - Lieutenant

Platoon Sergeant - Staff Sergeant

Platoon Guide - Sergeant

Messenger

Zusätslich bekommt jedes Platoon einen LAW (Ligh Armoured Walker)

Rifle Squad (3) of which their will be 1x designated marksman 1x radioman 1x tech and 1 Reconnaissance Drone. additionally each Rifle Squad will get a medic

Squad Leader - Sergeant

Fire Team (3)

Team Leader/Grenadier - Corporal

Automatic Rifleman - Lance Corporal

Assistant Automatic Rifleman

Rifleman/Scout

The colour separation will be, grey armour, yellow, blue or green left shoulder with a number on it 1,2,3.
Green for 3rd Platoon and 1.2.3. for each rifle squad.
Alpha green 1 would then be "Rifle company alpha, 3rd Rifle Platoon, 1st Rifle Squad".

every rifle squad will have a medic and a LAW combat android. In times of peace or on camp the droid will take car of all the heavy duty work and logistics, while in combat he will be geared up to blow the sit out of you.
every rifle squad will additionally get a recon drone which will extend their operational capability.

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Tue, 31 Jul 2018 12:37:28 GMTMy friend Bloodbeard has shared a tutorial most useful for adding detail and lifelike surroundings to your settings of mad adventure and horrible carnage. His blog is filled with this kind of scratchbuilding stuff. Enter, the dollhouse:...

My friend Bloodbeard has shared a tutorial most useful for adding detail and lifelike surroundings to your settings of mad adventure and horrible carnage. His blog is filled with this kind of scratchbuilding stuff. Enter, the dollhouse:

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Tutorial: Upgraded dollhouse furniture
While browsing ebay one night, I came across some dollhouse furniture scaled 1:50. Super duper cheap stuff, but the scale seems a bit small for 28-30mm models.

I went ahead and ordered some anyway. Logic was that it would be super cheap even if the scale was too off - I could turn it into scrap piles and barricades.

Most of these sets come in sets of 10 pieces, so you'll get a lot of stuff. Just go ahead and search for 'dollhouse furniture 1:50' and you'll get a lot of results. Organize with cheapest first.

Scale turned out to be on the small side, but not bad looking. And considering how most mdf buildings are too small as well, it's really not a problem.

I'll show how I used all the small pieces, to make quick pieces for all the settings I play.

The end result for me is: The 1:50 scale dollhouse stuff is cheap and well worth it. Lots of terrain for minimum work.

Dinner tables
The pieces are small, so I decided to glue some together. Made two tables and glued four chairs to them.

This dinner table was too big, to glue the chairs just as is. I added a tiny bit of sprue, not visible on the tabletop.

Office space
Made from the tabes, chair and a TV-stand. The TV furniture was too small on its own, it didn't look good. But I had 10 of those pieces. Chop them up and make a little office desk. With my clippers I used a bit of the piece to make a keyboard and mouse.

Sci-fi lab
Also went and added some of the pieces to my Star Saga tables. An easy way to add some screens and small drawers. Again I glued the chairs in place, so they're not all over the place.

Wardrobes and bookshelves
There's some cool wardrobes and bookshelves as well, but they're a bit thin. So I added some old bolts with superglue, add some weight, keep them in place.

Take some cardboard and close up the back of the bookshelves and wardrobes. Superglue it in place and cut out when dry. As I had so many wardrobes, I made some of them into fantasy ones, by adding a few bit box bits.

Also cut off the top ornament on half, to make them different.

Decided to use a few bookshelves for my fantasy games. Used some ice cream sticks to add backing to a couple of them. And then I added some bits from the bit box to the top (see them in the bottom)

The collection
And here's the result of my cheap china furniture buy (without Star Saga pieces). The beds are really bland on their own, flat besides a few sculpted pillows. Made some for dungeon furniture by again adding some bits of ice cream stick and matches.

After painting them, I've added some small pieces of fabric to make blankets.

From way back in the days, I had some resin (or platser?) Got them in a huge box of unfinished terrain projects.

For painting I organized the stuff into different sets. Making a bed, closet, shelves, tables in the same colors. For different houses. Grey, white, black, brown. Made a lot of boring grey pieces, that'll also fit into sci-fi settings as well as modern houses.

Yes,it is I, Lottie, the curse of Millhaven. No, it's just me. Not to worry.

And I brought something new to the table; quite literally.

Vienna Figure Convention is coming up next weekend and I thought I should put another new model on display for that huge event.

I've had this figure lying around since around christmas 2017. Got the 1/24th and 1/32nd sized versions, both of which I actually won at a quiz. :D Crazy, isn't it. This is "Daddy's Lil Girl" by Andrea Miniatures (who are well known for making amazing large-scale figurines). The figure quite clearly is based off of the Suicide Squad film version of Harley Quinn.

It's cast in white metal, with a few fiddly parts (ammo holster on the right side and hair strands come to mind). Mold lines are to be removed; on the main torso sometimes in a bit problematic places. The legs are cast in resin, and are generally also well cast, but on the right leg there was some stuff to remove along the leg, which is really unfortunate given the very fine mesh stocking texture on the legs). The figure comes with a simple white metal base with a cracked pavement look to it.

Assembly wasn't too bad, so I quickly started painting:

I started by blocking out base colours (and in some places giving them some basic shading and highlighting) just so I know which colour goes where, what the thing will look llike overall, and to get a general feel for the figure. Hope you like her so far!

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Sun, 29 Jul 2018 20:50:54 GMTMy friend Bloodbeard runs a blog with a cornucopia of hobby goings-on in it, not least scratchbuilding of terrain! Here (http://bloodbeard.blogspot.com/2018/07/tutorial-corrugated-scrap-metal-walls.html) he has kindly wished to share his latest tutorial with us, for all your ramshackle need!
Be...

My friend Bloodbeard runs a blog with a cornucopia of hobby goings-on in it, not least scratchbuilding of terrain! Here he has kindly wished to share his latest tutorial with us, for all your ramshackle need!

Be sure to check out more of the stuff on his blog if you like what you see here:

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Tutorial: Corrugated Scrap Metal Walls
I found the tool for this build a long time ago. Don't know how I ended up with it, but it was during long hours of searching china shops for useful stuff. And I found a 'toothpaste squezer' - perfect tool! Greenstuff World have since released the exact same item under the name 'corrugator' - but it's a toothpaste squezer and it's half price like that.

Best tool you'll ever find for $3 including shipping.

GSW is an awesome shop however, so it's always a good cause to throw money at them.

Made these for use in all my sci-fi and post-apoc games. To be walls for Alexandria and Woodbury in The Walking Dead or in Last Days. As part of the Wasteland in Scrappers and This is not a Test. And they are 3'' compatible with Deadzone. Also fitting for Ash Wastes in Necromunda or Killteam (man there's a lot of cool games).

Step 1: Bases
Cut out a bunch of bases for the walls. I've made sure mine are 3'' compatible for a Deadzone grid. Made then 1,5'' wide, so they will stay in place and not fall over. I've used thick 3mm cardboard for the bases.

Step 2: Sprue and hot glue
Cut a lot of poles from old sprue. Shave off small bits, to make the poles a bit uneven. Also try and find some with an angled piece, saving glue connections later.

Using the hotglue gun (and I find it's much better than super glue) attack them to the bases. A lot of them, more than you think.

Step 3: Walkways
Prepare the walkways, glue some sprue to the angled pieces.

Step 3: Corrugated plates
Take out you toothpaste squeezer and make a bunch of metal. I used different thickness of cardboard and aluminium bbq trays. Thought was to get different textures on the finished walls, but it doesn't show well. Cardboard is easier to glue however.

Hey everyone, I'm really hoping to get some feedback on my blog post. I want to help people with some of the outside of the box guides in miniature painting.

In this case, it's the opposite of mini paint and actually removing paint from minis, I want to improve the guide and blog as much as possible and wondered if anyone would mind taking a look and giving some feedback, please?

Unbelieveably, our geeky little blog has hit 10,000 views for 2018! So as we're mired in some big projects at the minute, here's a little fill in post – terrain, thrifty Age Of Sigmar and a scratchbuilt Contemptor WIP. Enjoy!